A Guide to Search Results for "The Bible"
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Virtually everyone who uses the search term "the bible" is looking for Web sites that feature the Holy Book of the Judeo-Christian tradition known as The Bible." However, the Bible is not a single book; it is a collection of books written by dozens of authors over thousands of years, each book being of dubious authenticity, as there is no original manuscript known to be in existence for any book found in the Bible. The oldest versions of these books that do exist are copies of previous books that may have been copied and/or translated countless times themselves. Indeed, many outstanding biblical scholars have devoted their entire lives to authenticating small portions of a single book of the Bible, resulting in no less than six different scholarly versions of the Bible currently in print in the English language alone. Notwithstanding the pragmatic problems that biblical scholars encounter when trying to determine what belongs in the Bible and what does not, countless millions of Christians profess to believe that the Bible is the word of God, transcribed exactly as He[sic] intended it to be transcribed.

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• The Bible Gateway
  Online Bible resources including Bibles searchable in multiple languages and versions, audio, commentaries, and downloads.

• Blue Letter Bible
  The Bible searchable by verse or keyword. Several English translations, plus the Vulgate, and interlinear Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament. Text and audiovideo commentaries, Bible maps, and charts.

• NET Bible : The Biblical Studies Foundation
  Home of the New English Translation.

  • The New English Translation
    Dynamic equivalence in text, formal equivalence in extensive notes. Uses frames. Downloadable for the PalmOS and Logos.

• The Unbound Bible
  A collection of searchable Bibles consisting of ten English versions, various Greek and Hebrew Versions (the original Bible languages) and and LXX version of the Old Testament and Apocrypha. In Symbol font/unicode.

• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - New American Bible
  Full text online. 1986 New Testament, 1991 Psalms; the rest is 1970 translation. With introductions and notes.

• The International Bible Society
  Many online Bibles in many languages. Lowcost NIV Bibles direct from the publisher.

• Bible Study Tools on crosswalk.com
  Bible resource page for conducting word, verse, and topic searches in fourteen bible versions, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, commentaries, concordances, biblical dictionaries, sermon helps, and church history.

• Navigating the Bible II
  Online bar/bat mitzvah tutor for the Jewish Bible. Translation with commentary in English, Spanish, and Russian. Also has audio files of Torah reading, the haftorot, and a biblical atlas.